Christmas Music!

Yes, I am aware Halloween hasn't even happened yet... but oh how I love to the holiday music! I've been listening to Christmas music ALL DAY LONG! I'm ready for Christmas! It's my favorite time of the year!!! And the beginning of the Christmas season is the end to the horrid semester :) YES!!!! Josh Groban singing "Oh Holy Night" how could a day get ANY better?!

Randomness from the rain

It's still early today, but so far today this is what I have seen:

1. The Vandekamp fish sticks man walking down the street,

2. A man screaming at the pavement, while violently thrashing his pink and purple umbrella... and finally;
3. A bus totally soak 5 people walking carefully over a puddle that had formed in front of them.

Does it make me a bad person that I was completely amused by all of this?

Rain

I love the rain and right now it is pouring... it's so great! Why can't we have more days like this? Why, because So Cal is ill-equipped to handle rain. I.E. Floating dumpsters, 7 accidents between Sunset Cliffs and the 163, and the floods in the offices next to ours. Yes, rain is nice, but So Cal can't handle it. Pansies!
So allow me to introduce you to the cutest dog ever! Her name is Droopy and she is featured as my icon currently. That is the latest addition to Derek and Jennifer's home. (an illegal addition) Allow me to share what they are up to...

My brother has some interesting ways of thinking... he is currently stuck in a lease for a year (or 10 more months) and he found it to be a brilliant idea to put a down payment down on a house! So now, my little brother and his clueless wife will be purchasing a 3 bedroom, 1.5 bathroom home that they have only seen the outside of. If they chose to drop the pursuit of this house, they lose their down payment. (I think I got the common sense in the family.) Anyway... the only positive thing is that they seem to be really excited about this new place, the neighborhood and the OUTSIDE of the house. :) Jennifer is excited that it has hardwood floors. I think she'll change her mind when it's 2 below zero outside and the floor inside is like walking on a frozen lake... but maybe not.

My brother also got his wisdom teeth out today... the full effect: drugged up, knocked out... and sent packing home. Jennifer has been taking care of him today.. but he insists that he is fine. Although has asked her 12 times so far today if he could take his teeth home with him. Fine is a relative term I guess.

Besides trying to keep my brother from the clutches of the collection agencies... Life is pretty uneventful here. Currently breaking from work, not much is going on. Had a fabulous weekend with the debate team. Enjoying the team, the event, and the good ol' times with Shannon and Co..

That is all for now... off to actually get some food and then float my car back to the office and pray that I am not the 8th accident between Sunset Cliffs and the 163 today.

Another one bites the dust

Oh how I am counting down the weeks... I only have six remaining for classes and I am oh so happy. I am currently sitting in my advance legal research class. It hasn't started yet. It is so incredibly boring. There is nothing advanced about this course and that is frustrating. Enough complaining.

Today is Thursday which once again means Thursday night TV with Carrie! It is much fun... we have dinner and watch TV for 3 hours... how grand is that? We enjoy it, but sadly we will only be enjoying it for another 2 months because Carrie is going to move to LA. :( She wants to be closer to her sister and Aly, which I can understand... but will be very sad to see her go. Who will I watch TV with on Thursday nights?! No not my husband he dispizzzzes all the shows. SIGH... Well, I'll enjoy it till it ends. And tonight we are making yummy chicken pasta.

Debate tourney this weekend! Sooo excited. But I have just been informed I will have to be here the entire time of my class... not happy. I must go and cry now.

Life is too short sometimes

Wow, so I just heard from Faith, and her younger brother Daniel, died yesterday. He was only 21. 3 years ago he went to his chiropractor and his life changed. A "knot" in his back turned out to be a tumor the size of a football. A couple of surgeries, 3 ribs removed and 42 staples in his side later he was tumor free. He went through Chemo and after a while seemed to be on the up and up and even went back to some classes at a JC. Then because fate wasn't cruel enough to him, he ended up with secondary "kids" leukemia. At one point he had no white cells ... but he fought on. From what I am told, in June the doctors told him to go live the rest of his life the way he wanted to, there was nothing more they could do. So Daniel went back to Roswell to be near family, friends and his church. And that is where his story ends as of Thursday evening.

It's just so hard to imagine that someone our age could be gone just like that. He led a normal life just like the rest of us ... but it wasn't in God's plan to have him be with us longer than those 21 years. He is in a much better place now. But for the rest of us left here it's a tough blow to reality, life's frailty and what really matters.

May you rest in peace, Daniel. You were an awesome guy.

Life as it were

It was a good weekend around here. Everything with our apartment is coming together nicely. It's starting to look like a home now. Most everything is in order. Our office no longer looks like it exploded. My tire has it's second patch and second nail removed. And my brother came down to visit and to remove the bed from the living room!

My brother down here was the final time that he'll visit here. Derek and Jen are leaving for North Dakota on Wednesday. It makes me kind of sad that the only time I'll see him now is when I fly to exciting MINOT! I will be doing that in January, the dead of winter... if I don't come back, send out the snow dogs.

So to mark his visit we spent Saturday night watching movies,forfeiting game night...deep sadness, next time guys. Today we got ourselves up for church and then Derek and I headed to the zoo for the afternoon. 5 hours of hiking (4 miles) it was a lot of fun to just spend time with him and I am glad that we got to do it before he took off to start working with the missles. (Scary thought by the way.)

The weekend is now over, and I must return to work and school. ECK! Another week to go. (Hopefully fast.) Is it bad to wish for the weekend before the week has even started? Hehe

Enjoy your week everyone!

Back to the swing of things...

So for all that haven't heard, our honeymoon was in JAMAICA! It was so fabulous. The water was super warm, we just laid out and relaxed. We stayed at this all inclusive resort, where everything was free (well once we paid the extreme upfront costs) but it was so nice. We ate at 5 star restaurants, room service 24 hours a day, and a gorgeous view. Our first room was literally 10 feet from the ocean, then Hurricane Charly came and we had to move to a different room, still nice, but not as close. It was so nice to be able to just spend time with each other and not have to run off and be somewhere at a particular time.

Again I still have to thank everyone that helped out with the wedding so so much! I couldn't have done it without any of you. And I have pictures, oh so many pictures. We have the professional ones back from the photographer already too. They are really really good. Stop by and see them some time.

Yesterday I started back to classes, so not ready to, but it wasn't that bad. I think I'll actually enjoy my remedies class (the one that I didn't want) but my real property transactional class I am a bit skeptical about still. I have two more classes today and then I have Fridays off! (at least this one)

I myself head back to work on Monday, but I don't have nearly as cool of a job as Shannon. I am so happy that your job is kick-ass Shan. But I'm even more happy that it's a kick-ass job in So Cal. (Can I say ass on "Livejournal"?)

Loving Husband and I are slowly getting our house into order, and I do mean slowly. We opened all of our gifts and they were rad, most people gave us cash and we aren't complaining at all about that. We have the reception up in our hometown on Saturday from 4-8... all you peeps are welcome to come, just email me for the directions and info.

Must start my day now. Enjoy yours.